In Depth with Steven Pinker

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11 жыл бұрын

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Cognitive scientist Steven Pinker talked about his life and career. He responded to telephone calls and electronic mail. Videos were shown of Steven Pinker in his house in Boston, talking about his writing habits and showing the books in his library. Many photographs he had taken were also shown. Steven Pinker currently teaches at Harvard University where he holds the positions of Harvard College Professor and the Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology. Until 2003, he taught in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He conducts research on language and cognition, writes for publications such as the New York Times, Time, and Slate, and is the author of seven books, including The Language Instinct (1994), How the Mind Works (1997), Words and Rules (1999), The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature (2002), and his latest, The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature (2007).

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@NoWay1969 10 жыл бұрын

Quite possibly the smartest and most articulate person I have ever heard. And he _always_ sounds that way.

@firstal3799 6 жыл бұрын

Read yuval Harari. He is now more famous.

@WhatIsNature 10 жыл бұрын

Absolutely fantastic. What a brilliant guy. Very interesting to get some insight into his process for some of his day-to-day life. as well as his take on writing his books. I feel like his intelligence is contagious when I listen to him answer a question or talk about... well, literally anything!

@jlawrence6723 9 жыл бұрын

Calvin Constable you're a shill. if you were the simpleton your gushing suggests, you couldn't operate a keyboard.

@WhatIsNature 9 жыл бұрын

jlawrence Thanks for your plebian insight. It's duly noted. Have a great day =D

@williamspringer9447 Жыл бұрын

Pinker is just another academic hustler . He is content to leave the masses (us) wallowing in ignorance and misbelief. He never mentions such things as the fact that the science of classical logic hasn't been taught in our State controlled public schools for more than a century? How we supposed to understand the world if we are never taught to reason properly? The Underground History of American Education by John Gatto

@joshualord2700 10 жыл бұрын

I know, right? His thoughts are exceptionally well-structured and combined with his enviable verbal fluency he speaks more eloquently than even most educated people are able to write (not an inconsiderable feat). When I listen to him I feel as though my mind is being cleaned as pure sense is poured into it. Ok, my gushing is getting embarrassing now so I'll leave it there! haha

@sugartem1 11 жыл бұрын

Intellectual optimist and humble person in the filed of human psychology particularly cognitive. It was worth watching him thanks for sharing.

@weaselidiotu 10 жыл бұрын

he's always so focused in his speech!

@sev2100 6 жыл бұрын

02:56:50 lol she picked up the signature Pinker tongue click

@fightclubfrenzy 10 жыл бұрын

awesome pinker...my favourite scientist

@velivelmu8530 9 жыл бұрын

WHEN * WAS * THIS * INTERVIEW * RECORDED !!!!!????? I'm totally baffled that this basic piece of information isn't always the first thing told. Something is rotten in the site of KZfaq.

@mateo77ish 9 жыл бұрын

***** Google shmoogle. The info's in the video description above.

@bacchusaurelius 6 жыл бұрын

No it's not.

@richardgates7479 6 жыл бұрын

It was sometime before Saturday, November 8, 2008. Probably November 1st.

@MostlyReading 11 жыл бұрын

Does anybody know the classical piece of music they play on the outro at 2:15:35 ? ... Sounds so familiar, but I can't place it. Thanks!

@georgegeorgopoulos6014 9 жыл бұрын

Not gay, but love his hair!

@lsbrother 8 жыл бұрын

+George Georgopoulos Why would we care whether you are gay or not? And what's that got to do with his hair?

@georgegeorgopoulos6014 8 жыл бұрын

lsbrother Valid questions! I guess the pressure via insecurity of the often read 'gay' comment got the better of me. That should also cover ur second question. I'd be happy 2 b gay!

@georgegeorgopoulos6014 8 жыл бұрын

***** Thats a hell of a thesis! lol

@lsbrother 8 жыл бұрын

+InTheLight Oh I see - must be a genetic thing - runs in families!

@davidravnsborg2565 8 жыл бұрын

+InTheLight Great sarcasm

@memphis8427 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot for sharing it.

@conceptualben 11 жыл бұрын

Thanks a million!

@RodesLaw 10 жыл бұрын

"Your welcome" ? what the hell does that even mean? And graceful is a meaningless adjective. No problem is a much better response to thank you than you're welcome. Steven Pinker is awesome !

@quantumaxe6468 10 жыл бұрын

yes, absolutely. i used to wonder the same. 'you're welcome' is pretty much an invitation for exploitation in my opinion.

@jlawrence6723 10 жыл бұрын

"You're welcome" is graCIOUS - not graceFUL - and yes it is. pinker's not "awesome"; he's a pop psychologist making a killing by cultivating a niave (tho adamant) following...

@williamspringer9447 Жыл бұрын

Does Pinker ever challenge the State mythology that might endanger his paycheck ? Does he ever mention that the science of classical logic hasn't been taught in our State controlled public schools for more than a century? The Underground History of American Education by John Gatto

@momentary_ 9 жыл бұрын

1:43:13 Hank Hill calls in

@Slayer-Knight 8 жыл бұрын

1:43:13 OSI - We Come Undone

@Hannibal953able 8 жыл бұрын

Steven Pinker would make a great Sith Lord. That glorious grey hair would make KOTOR proud.

@williamspringer9447 Жыл бұрын

He is a Sith Lord. I wonder if Pinker knows that the science of classical logic hasn't been taught in our State controlled public schools for more than a century? The Underground History of American Education by John Gatto

@AustralianRealist 11 жыл бұрын

No worries mate.

@Kitsua 11 жыл бұрын

Pinker has one of the most unflappable and comprehensive intellects I've ever come across. I could listen to him speak on practically any subject for hours on end. The book he eventually did publish in 2011 on the decline of violence, The Better Angels of Our Nature, is utterly brilliant and highly recommended.

@williamspringer9447 Жыл бұрын

If Pinker ever told the truth to the peasants (us) they would crucify him . I wonder if he believes that HIV causes AIDS?

@haroldnaples 8 жыл бұрын

Reconstruction is a problem only if you wish, for some reason to preserve these languages. It would be foolish to assume they are all valuable, especially considering that nearly all of the few thousand languages fall into three of about twenty possible categories. So the good news is that its not necessarily a big loss, the bad news is less formal variety, or is that good news as well. Considering that the primary function of language is communication, the fewer and simpler the better. As far as artistic or esthetic value and self expression the most popular are not necessarily the best. Just compare the literary value and history of Chinese and Spanish with that of English, German, French, Russian or even Japanese or Italian. Then compare the current numbers of their speakers.

@harrisonkane1288 2 жыл бұрын

Here in 2022 when pinker is a super star

@ElvisWoods 10 жыл бұрын

A beautiful mind indeed.

@williamspringer9447 Жыл бұрын

Now you've been lied to by the best . I wonder if Linked believes that man walked on the Moon?

@andreaostrovletania 11 жыл бұрын

Pinker's appeal is in re-configuring politically incorrect ideas into politically acceptable ones.

@williamspringer9447 Жыл бұрын

He can't do that without deceiving his audience . I wonder if he believes that man walked on the Moon?

@rajanl6183 10 жыл бұрын

Fantastic relavations.

@drbabymukurian3423 10 жыл бұрын

Respected Sir it was very informative for me. Let me thank you for that. With ever loving mind Dr. M.U Baby

@williamspringer9447 Жыл бұрын

Pinker never mentions that the science of classical logic hasn't been taught in our State controlled public schools for more than a century. Do you think he knows that most of us are uneducated brainwashed cattle? The Underground History of American Education by John Gatto

@KeithBeacham 11 жыл бұрын

Would you agree that some themes, memes or mantras are repeated not in intellectual agreement but as cultural signifiers, rapport builders.

@williamspringer9447 Жыл бұрын

Do you think Pinker knows that the science of classical logic hasn't been taught in our State controlled public schools for more than a century? Do you think he knows that our society is populated by uneducated brainwashed cattle? The Underground History of American Education by John Gatto

@Stardusk 11 жыл бұрын

It's a nice way of putting it but I rather see it as the one frontier, no academic, even Pinker, dare cross. Forbidden territory and in this he is not unique, hence why I am not really angry. Suffice to say, a meme most certainly need not be accurate to achieve currency, even in the mind of a Steven Pinker. Still overall a great man and great thinker.

@ignatiusmagnanimous 8 жыл бұрын

He should rap some N.W.A

@bageoop 9 жыл бұрын

steven pinker t e v e n p i n k e r

@richardkohn4153 6 жыл бұрын

After Tom Brady, Steven Pinker is my bro crush.

@quantumaxe6468 10 жыл бұрын

only a matter of time when it is realized that everything is chance, there is no choice. we just need more data.

@williamspringer9447 Жыл бұрын

Real choice and freewill require informed consent. This is why the science of classical logic hasn't been taught in our State controlled public schools for more than a century. The Underground History of American Education by John Gatto

@davidsatler1 10 жыл бұрын

Why is she keep asking him "What were you trying to do with this(book)" as if he was a murderer?? :)

@jlawrence6723 9 жыл бұрын

***** perhaps she thinks his book & thesis are crap and wonders how the thing ever got published -- and why? 'what's the point of it?' (such nonsense) is a perfectly reasonable question. which pinker can't answer because he probably didn't write it (and has cotton candy for brains).

@williamspringer9447 Жыл бұрын

She acts like she didn't know that he's just trying to make a buck , without being crucified by orthodox academia . I wonder if he believes that man walked on the Moon?

@bris1tol 8 жыл бұрын

Empiricism (Pinker) portray man as a robot or zombie with no central processing unit (a living mind). Empiricism portrays man as a robot or zombie with no central processing unit (mind). Such a man cannot perceive, feel or do anything. To do so requires the universal transcendentalism of Emerson or Leibniz. Even Kant came up short with his personal transcendentalism, which make no provision for a deity or even for a full-blown moral agent. Empiricism is the passive model of mindless anglo-american philosophy, foisted on us (evewn on Kant) by Hume and eagerly adopted by science , neuroscience, psychology, and by today's philosophers of "mind" such as Dennett and Searle, even sadly by Pinker, who at one time (in the Blank Slate) once realized that the mind is an active entity, but soon dropped that provision. The list is endless, and leaves anglo-american philosophy with a man who cannot think, do, feel or perceive, continued to this day by means of groupthink copycat academics. The problem can be solved by adopting a transcendental philosophy such as that of Leibniz (starting with his Monadology) and Emerson, in which mind (his CPU) enables a man to perceive, think, feel and do. -- see my website independent.academia.edu/RogerClough ---- Without governance the stars will fall. ------Without a single governor they will collide.

@rmigdias 8 жыл бұрын

I agree, Steven Pinker is Awesome

@mitchelldavis482 7 жыл бұрын

Oh look more Clough spam.

@williamspringer9447 Жыл бұрын

Why doesn't Pinker ever mention that the science of classical logic hasn't been taught in our State controlled public schools for more than a century? How are we to be anything but uneducated brainwashed robots if we are never taught to reason properly? The Underground History of American Education by John Gatto

@StevenWilliamFischer 8 жыл бұрын

The interviewer flubs every question!

@KhasAdun1990 7 жыл бұрын

I wanna know what Steven Pinker would think of freestyle rapping.

@roibenblitz6863 7 жыл бұрын

I second that.

@janbuyck742 10 жыл бұрын

If god's true name is Yahweh, then we're dealing here with an ancient Summerian Wargod... that could explain the lot of the aggression in the Old Testament...

@janbuyck742 9 жыл бұрын

Yahweh is a deity out of a Bronze Age Canaanite polytheistic mythologie. He was jealous about his co-gods Heshira and Baal, and wanted tot overthrow Heshira's husband an upper god El. Unfortunately, he succeeded in it by gaining a majority of followers among the local humans... History might have looked completely different if this never would have happened... ;)

@wendyyup865 10 жыл бұрын

Yeah! Steven Pinker buys used books!

@mrmarkl328 10 жыл бұрын

Can someone give me an estimate of Steven Pinker's I.Q.?

@TomasMikaX 10 жыл бұрын

948

@mrmarkl328 10 жыл бұрын

nahh, more like 145

@stupidas9466 6 жыл бұрын

His iq is actually best expressed as a formula...u+ix2

@williamspringer9447 Жыл бұрын

He is one of the slickest academic hustler out there . He lies with the best of them. I'd estimate his I.Q. at 160+. I wonder if he believes that man walked on the Moon?